Las Casas Institute

  1. Events
  2. Las Casas Institute

Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

The Culture of Encounter in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Elections, Elections: How Will the World Be Different at the end of 2024?

More than 50 countries have already gone, or are set to go, to the polls to elect leaders in 2024, representing a large percentage of the world’s population – a fact made more daunting by the reality that, in some nations, democracy is on the line. The implications for human rights, international relations, and economics...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Cultural Encounters of Otherness through Shakespeare

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Recurring

Thinking about work – discussion group

If men and women are made in God's image, then human work must have something divine about it. If societies are supposed to be just, then the work that people do should be justly rewarded. We will look at highlights of modern Catholic thinking about work and worker justice, from Cardinal Manning in the 1870s...

Prayers and Stories of Peace

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom

Religious Imaginaries & Victimhood Narratives in Colombia’s Road to Peace A joint Las Casas Institute – Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) event in-person and online. After half a century of bloodshed and over nine million registered victims, a peace agreement was signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the FARC  insurgency. Since then, enormous political...

The Political Misuse of Language

“Get Brexit Done.” “Stop the Boats.” “Make America Great Again.” A long cry from a “Kinder, Gentler Nation” and “New Labour, New Britain,” these simple yet profound recent slogans have not only resonated with certain voters throughout the West; they have also become some of the most dominating political messages of the day. But while...

James Joyce ‘Ulysses’

In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference — we embrace the other at a time when we have heard much about the ways in which national, religious, and cultural lines divide us as humans. In this series, we invite leading scholars across disciplines...